Tools and Guides
We hope you'll take advantage of this toolkit of resources to "green" your life at home, at work, and on campus. We will be regularly adding new tools and guides as they become available. Know of or want a resource that you don't see here? Let us know.
- Sustainability Advocate Program Handbook
This Handbook was developed for Sustainability Advocates as a guide to "greening" NYU administrative areas and offices. It's a great (and evolving) resource for energy conservation, recycling, purchasing and other areas of concern on campus. - NYU Sustainability Task Force 2008 Annual Report and Recommendations
This report highlights progress made in implementing last year’s recommendations, and it also contains a new set of 60 recommendations to further advance NYU along the path toward sustainability. - NYU Sustainability Task Force 2007 Annual Report and Recommendations
The Task Force assembled this comprehensive review of sustainability practices and achievements, as well as a set of 30 specific, practical recommendations for greening the campus. The report also offers a great summary of the first year of NYU's sustainability initiative. - Greening the Urban Campus: An Environmental Assessment of NYU (2006)
This environmental impact study of NYU was carried out by a Gallatin student team in 2006. The students built a year-long curriculum around the question of how to evaluate NYU's impact as a campus, and their report offers first steps toward sustainability across eight major areas of university operations. The Sustainability Task Force's first comprehensive Environmental Assessment will offer an even deeper look at NYU's environmental impacts in mid-2008. - Office Closing Energy Checklist
This one-page customizable sheet can help you or your colleagues ensure that you are conserving energy in NYU offices when you wrap up for the day. - Recycling at NYU Flier
This flier includes information about what can and can not be recycled at NYU, as well as background and contact information about the NYU Recycling Department. - Student Guide to Green Living Checklist
This one-page guide is a good starting point for green living in NYU Residence Halls. It's a preview of the forthcoming full Student Guide to Green Living, which will be available mid-2008, and shared with incoming students in the dorms next year. - Green Gifts Guide
This guide, assembled by the NYU Administrative Management Council, offers suggestions for giving meaningful, environmentally-responsible gifts to celebrate the holiday season. - Ecological Footprint Quiz prompts a short set of questions to calculate your footprint on the planet, using the Ecological Footprint method of evaluating environmental impacts. Consider that every human activity requires a quantity of land somewhere to support it. Ecological Footprinting is a technique that converts different types of impacts (the use of fossil fuels, the landfilling of waste, etc.) into a common denominator that is easily comparable and easily understood – acres of globally-available productive land.
- Carbon Footprint calculator is a tool that offers an estimate of your annual personal greenhouse gas emissions based on the information you input about your lifestyle.
- Clean Air-Cool Planet Campus Toolkit is a comprehensive guide and resource kit available to all universities, for developing plans to reduce campus contributions to global warming. Toolkit includes a greenhouse gas emissions inventory calculator and step-by-step reduction plan and implementation guide. NYU is carrying out a similar emissions inventory as part of the comprehensive Environmental Assessment.